Detachable button



Sept. 12, 1933. P LEDWON 1,926,906

DETACHABLE BUTTON Filed April 28, 1955 NVENTOR HER ATTORNEYS Patented Sept. 12, 1933 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 4 Claims.

This invention relates to certain novel improvements in a detachable button, and has for its principal object the provision of an improved construction of this character which will be highly 5 eflicient in use and economical in manufacture.

One of the several objects of my invention is to provide a detachable button which may be conveniently andexpeditiously attached to a garment or the like, thereby alleviating the necessity of sewing or otherwise stitching the button to the garment or the like.

A still further object of the invention is-to provide a detachable button which includes a pair of attaching members flexibly connected to the button element in a manner such that the flexible connection between the button element and the attaching members will permit the button element to have suflicient freedom to allow convenient passage of the button element through a buttonhole of a garment or the like.

A still further object of the invention is the provision of a detachable button which may be used for the purpose of substitution for a button on a garment which has become. detached or broken.

Other objects will appear hereinafter.

The invention consists in the novel combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter de scribed and claimed.

The invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanying drawing showing the preferred form of construction, and in which:

Fig. 1 is a fragmentary View of a garment por tion showing my improved button associated 3 5 therewith;

2 is a sectional detail view of the same taken substantially on line 22 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a sectional detail view similar to Fig.

2 showing the method of applying the detachable 40 button to a garment or the like;

Fig. i is a perspective view of the invention;

and

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of one of the attachin' members embodied in the invention.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, a button element is indicated at 10. This button element may be of any approved construction, design or shape. This button element in the present instance is provided with spaced openings 59 11. This button element is detachably secured to a portion of a garment 12 through the medium of attaching members 13 arranged in opposed relation with respect to each other and in substantial alignment with respect 'to each other 5 when attached to the garment portion 12. These attaching elements are each preferably formed from a length of wire or the like bent substantially U-shaped and provided at opposite ends with an eyelet 14 and a penetrating point 15. V

The eyelets of the attaching members are flexi- 60 bly connected together by means of a flexible cord 16 or the like, and this cord also serves to flexibly connect the attaching members to the button element 10. This is accomplished by passing the cord through the eyelets and the open- 65, ings 11- and knotting the ends of the cord together as at 17.

This flexible connection between the attaching members and the button element is such that there is room to allow sufiicient movement of the button element to permit convenient passage ofthe button element through a buttonhole.

When the button element is attached to the garment through the medium of the attaching members 13, the portion of the garment between the bight portions 19 of the attaching members is of substantial taut condition, and this is accomplished in the manner shown in Fig. 3.

By reference to Fig. 3 it will be noted that the user first attaches one of the attaching elements to the garment portion 12. The garment portion is then tucked between the opposing penerating points of the attaching members so that when stretched; into normal condition, that portionof the garment between the bight portions will be substantially taut and thereby prevent accidental displacement of the button element. This tucking of the garment element between the penetrating points of the attaching members is facilitated by virtue of the flexible connection between the attaching members.

My improved detachable button may be applied as a permanent part of the garment or may be used to substitute and take the place of a button which has become loose or detached from the garment.

While I have illustrated and described the preferred form of construction for carrying myinvention into effect, this is capable of variation and modification without departing from the P spirit of the invention. I, therefore, do not wish to be limited to the precise details of construction set forth, but desire to avail myself of such variations and modifications as come within the scope of the appended claims. H c

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to protect by Letters Patent is:

1. A detachable button comprising a button element, a pair of attaching members provided with eyelets and penetrating means and adapted to be disposed in substantial alignment with respect to each other with the penetrating means and eyelet of one of the said members in opposed relation with respect to the penetrating means and eyelet of the other attaching member, and a flexible connection between the eyelets and said button element.

2. A detachable button comprising a button element, a pair of attaching members provided with eyelets and penetrating means and adapted to be disposed in substantial alignment with respect to each other with the penetrating means and eyelet of one of the said members in opposed relation with respect to the penetrating means and eyelet of the other attaching member, and means providing a flexible connection between the eyelets of the attaching members and said means also providing a connection between the eyelets and said button.

3. A detachable button comprising a button element having spaced openings formed therein,

a pair of oppositely disposed attaching members provided with penetrating means and eyelets with the eyelets and penetrating means disposed in opposed relation with respect to each other, and a flexible element adapted to be passed through said openings and said eyelets with its ends knotted together to provide a connection between the attaching members and the button knotted together.

4. A detachable button comprising a button element, a pair of attaching members each comprising a wire member bent substantially U- shaped and provided with penetrating means and eyelets and disposed in opposite relation with respect to each other with the penetrating means of one attaching member in opposite relation to the penetrating means of the other attaching member, and means for flexibly connecting the eyelets together and for connecting said eyelets to said button element.

PEARL LEDWON. 

